Cheese-cutter.



` No. '741,535'. PATENTED OCT. 13,1903.

B. NIGGLI.

CHEESE GUTTER.

, APPLICATION FILED .TUNE 17, 190s. i No MODEL. Y

UNITED STATES ratentea october 13, 1903.

EMILNIGGLI, or sAN ANTONIO, TEXAS.

CHEESE-CUTTER.

SPECIFICATION forming. part-.bf Letters Patent No. 741,535, dated oetober 13, 1903.

Application filed June 17, 1903. Serial No. 161.851.. (No model.)

T0 all whom, it may con/cern:

Be it known that I, EMIL NIGGLI, a citizen of the United States, residing at San Antonio, in the county of Bexar and State of Texas, have invented new and useful Improvements in Cheese-Cutters, of which the following is a specification. l

This invention relates particularly to that class of cheese-cutters in which the cheese is supported on a rotary platform and which have a scale-plate to indicate the amount of cheese to be cut.

The invention is characterized by animproved construction with respect to the knife which cuts the cheese and also with respect to the supports for the scale-plate which measures it.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a plan view of the invention. Fig. 2 is a front elevation. Fig. 3 is a Vertical cross-section, and Fig. 4 is a cross-section of a modification in which the knife instead of being supported by.a bow is carried by a single arm.

Referring specifically to the drawings, 6 indicates a stationary base on which is mounted a rotaryy platform 7, which turns on a center pin 8, projecting upwardly from a casting9, which extends diametrically across the platform and terminates at opposite ends in `upwardly-projecting ears 10, to which the knifebow l1 is pivoted. The bow is of lsufficient size to span the cheese and swings in either direction. -The knife is indicated at 12, comprising, preferably, a narrow strip of steel sharpened on both edges and is connected at its inner end by a pin lvbetween ears on top of the center pin 8. lts outer end is pinned to a bolt 14, which is squared where it extends througha hole in an adjustingplate 15. The bolt extends loosely through a holein the bow andhas ,a nut 16,`whereby the knife may be stretched. The plate 15 is attached to the bow by a screw 17, which ex-` tends through a slot 18 in the plate. The plate may thus be adjusted laterally to bring the knife to a rightposition to contact with the platform along its entirelength and completely sever the cut of cheese when the knife is lowered. The bow is provided with a wooden handle 19 and the platform with a' number of pins 20, which enter the cheese when it is placed on the platform and prevent relative movement.

The reversible scale-plate (indicated at `21) is carried by an arm 22,which extends through a hole in the vertical portion 23 of an angular supporting-bar, to which it is xed by a setscrew 24. The angular supporting-bar for' the scale-plate just referred to is movable radially withx respect to the platform to accommodate the scale-plate to cheese of different sizes in much the same manner as indicated in my Patent No. 701,924, issued June 10, 1902. The bar has a horizontal portion 25, which extends under the platform through a guide 26, against Ywhich bears one end of a spring 27, the other end being held by a pin 28 in the inner end of the bar, so that the spring is in compression, -tending to force the bar inwardly. The outer end of the horizontalportion 25 joins the vertical portion 23, which carries the arm of the scale-plate, as above described, and at the top the vertical portion is joined to the inwardly-extending horizontal portion 29, the end of which bears against the side of the cheese at all times. The knife comes down between the part 29 and the scale-plate.

In the modification shown in Fig. 4 the knife is carried by a single arm or half-bow 11a, which is pivoted with a wide bearing against an ear 10, projecting at the edge of the platform from the casting 9. The knife is adjusted and stretched in the same manner as in the other construction.

In use the knife is rst brought down against the platform and the whole cheese placed and centered thereon. Then the cheese is held down and the knife lifted, making the rst cut to the center of the cheese,

after which the cheese may be turned to cut offfslices as desired. The knife-plate is pref- IOO ear at the side, a rotatable platform thereon, Y

a pin projecting from the base through the center of the platform and on which the platform rotates, a swinging knife-support pivoted to the ear beside the platform and extending over thelatter, and a knife connected to the support and to the top of the pin.

2. In a cheese-cutter, in combination, a stationary base having a central pin and diametrically opposite ears, projecting upwardly therefrom, a platform rotatable on the pin, between the ears, a bow pivoted at its ends to the ears, and a knife connected to the pin in the middle of the bow.

3. In a cheese-cutter, the combination with rfi-1,535

EMIL NIGGLI.

Witnesses:

SoLoN STEWART, WILL A. MonRrss. 

